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Ilead.qusrters, Goes, 30th August, ISeg. f , tit- ,2 1 he, stale4ati numbeys, of the sick in this rtiuiring additional medical assistance, I have trirt command to desire that on the receipt of this leiter yow-will'be‘pleased to dire& a Physician to the Forces, a Medical gaff, Surgeon, aiichan Hospital T., , iate, to proceed ftrthu :th from Watheren to this e. I have .t he honour to be, (Signed) ROB. LONG, • , • : Colonel, Adjutant-General. Dispatch from Lieut.-General Sir E : ya.E.,Cetora, to Vis count CASTLY it EA CH, dated Midaleburgh, I.lth Septem ber, igc,9.--(.Extra6t ) " LORD—On the 31st. ult. I did myself the honour of inclosing to your Lordship an urgent ap plieotion flan: Mr: Webb for additional medical aid. Qty the ..e.3kl inst. your Lordship was pleased to in form me that the Medical Board should be instruet ed to send oft without delay the assistance required, and also a sufficient quantity of medicines, „such - as intijit be best suited to remedy and counteract the _disorder prevalent here. , I am now concernwii to acquaint your ; Lordship, that to this day we have only received (Ate Staff Sur g.:-.on and three Hospital Mates, without any addi tional supply of medicines, hospital bedding, or _comfort of , any kind, so imperiously called for b 3, the affliding number of our sick. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) EYRE CooTE. To. Viscount Castlereagh; ace. Dispatch from Lieutenant-General Sir EYRE Coors to Viscount C 4sTLEILEA GH, dated Middleburgh, 17th Sep- tember, IScg. MY LORD—I hare the honour to transmit for your Lordship's information, the copy of a letter which 4 addressed to Lieut.-Genera} the Earl of Chatham, when I was left in the command of \Valcheren. A perusal . of that letter will fully acquaint your Lordship with my ideas of this Island, and our means of keeping it. The prospect of our affairs since that period has not brightened, but, on the contrary, has assutned a. much more alarming ap pearance, as you will judge from the following state 7 rent. Deity State of the Sick in the Island of Walcheren,, Sept. 19, Officers, 224.—Serjanti.—Drurrimers; 13 R.--- Rank and tile, $l2B. Remarks-3,Serjeants, 26 rank and file dead. Dispatch from Lieut.-General Sir F.y R E.OO OT P. to. Viscount CAsrLaREACH, dated Middieburgh, 23d Sept.tBo9. MY LORD—It is rith deep concern that I find myself called upon so shortly after my letter ,of the 1711i,.el -r7-;7. ain. to address your Lordship upon the sa ' i:try_ . ; subject, the sickness of the troops. The;.7, * k,i 7 7:: g progress , hourly made by 'this fatal disea - ' : ch; that if it should continue in the same proportion tor three weeks , longer .(and Were is_. every probability that it will), our po3session of this island must become very precarious. Our chief de pendence will then be • upon the navy, and that / during the winter months will be extremely un certain. The English newspapers will inform the enemy of our perilous situation, exclusive of the informa tion which we cannot wrevent him - from daily re ,ceiving from this Island, closely surrounded as it is by his possessions-and filled with his partizans ; un der these circumstances, it is scarcely to be supposed that he will loose so favourable an opportunity of attacking Walcheren. - . For your Lordship's information, I enclose the re turns of the sick 'for the last three days, from which you will perceive the frightful increase which has taken place between the 17th and 22d instant, the deaths, I am sorry to add, are becoming daily more numerous. - The 23d regiment has suffered so much, that I have found it necessary to send it home. The 6th and the 8 1st are so extremely sickly, that they have bee-struck off the list of duty. ' The 77th, 84th, and some other cotes have almost arrived at the same inefficient state; and the enclosed copy of a letter from Brigadier-General Montresor wiil give you a melancholy account of the garrison of Flushing. At the representation of the principal Medical Officers, I have determined on sending 2000 sick, _belonging to regiments in the island 'to England, they are at present totally incapable of . duty, and must remain so for months to come: It is there ! most desirable- that they should return home, where they will have a chance of recovering; and their removal will afford us better accommodation for the .the sick that remain. • - . I I trust your Lordship will apprOve of this measure, which, in lea, is one of necessity, not of choice, as I in some regimens we have scarcely a sufficiency of I healthy,men to act as ofderfies in'their hospitals. ,4, ) _ No - inedical,assistauce (two hospital mates elik I cepted) has reached me since my "last, in the mean while the number of oar medical officers is decrees } , ing by sickees , . No comforts or wine for the sick I have arrived,. the consequences of which are, that i 1 we already begin to be in great distress for port wine, although I have ordered the Commissary I General to buy up at an exorbitant pride, all that I he could procure. I Am further concerned to state, 1 that we shall be soon'in want of bark, an article of ) such indispensable necessity in the prevailing lis t order;: if it be the intent ion to retain AValcheren, I i would strongly recommend that reinforcements should be sent from England the latter end of Oao bor,.or begiuping of November, when the troops will not be s o liable to feel the effeas of the endemic 1 1 'disease of this island. I am, &c. ' The force I then stated as necessary for our se curity was 20,000 men ; that left in the. island was abOnt 16,000, of which number 8200 are now sick, leaving us only 7800 men for all defence. Our 10-s by deaths has, in the mean while, been very great, the-casualties within the last fortnight amount ing to 498. can assure your Lorriship, without any fear of exaggeration, as the folloWing statement will bear me out, that the situation of the troops in this island is deplorable : and it, grieves me to say, that none of the mt:dical assistance (one_ Staff Surgeon ahct three Hospital Mates excepted), or any of the protnised comforts, have yet arrived. On the con trary, our Medical Corps is daily diminished, either from s!ckness or from , the necessity of sending some of the Hospital Staff -with sick men to England. Some corps, from these causes, are nbw left with one Assistant.. Surgeon. I am enabled to give your Lordship a mosCcor reot account of these melancholy facts, as I have only this day completed my inspection of the Gene • ral:and Regimental Hospitals at the several places named in the margin.* I therefore write with the fresh impression on rnyinindbf the miserable situa tion of the greater proportion of our sick, not . through any fault of the Medical Gentlemen, for I must do them the ju.stice of the most unwearied ex el-IMo and exemplarrattention, but owing to the unavoidable want of accommodation existing in this country, and in our own resources. Middleburgh, from the size of its buildings, affords the best ac commodation, but even in that town, the sick are' so crowded, as to lay two in one bed in several places, and have no circulation of air:. besides, from the hourly admission of bad cases into the General Hospitals, the slighter ones, though: far from being in-a -tit state, are necessarily sent to the llegmental Hospitals to - Make room. You must add to these. disadvantages, • the total want of Coil valqscent wards, whereby relapses are often caused. 'At Veer a large Church (under other circumstances an eligible - situation) contains about 4000 patients; the other places occupied as hospitals in this town are- miserably small and excessively crowded. At Arinuyden the accommodation for the numerous sick i. wretched. But - . all this falls short of the truly deplorable situation in which the sick of the Garrison off - Flushing are placed ; exposed in many of the hospitals to all the inclemency of this un wholesome climate, owing to the damaged state df the roofs, never repaired, since the siege. This is a lamentable picture; but it is proper I should add, that every possible exertion has been, and is Still Making, to improve our ,situation, especially at Vlushinv ; but the total inadequacy 9f our means rt nders r all our end4avours of comparatively trivia in per twice. I have thought the situation of the troops so novel and distressing, and our . future proSpects so dis eoura?ing, as • pointed. out by the' inclosed letter froin beputy Inspector Burrowes, tlAt I have judg ed it expedient to send this letter by my Aide-de carnp, Captain Wursiey, who, having attended me through every hospital, is fully enabled to give such additional details as your Lordship mays require. I have, &c. • (Signed) EYRE. Coo Te. SiriCe the foregoing was written, I learn that lout or tiv.e Medical Officers have arrived from England ; hutwe have lost Mr. Aveling, Deputy Inspz:aor of H ospitals, who died last night ; anti the InspeCtor, Mr. Webb, has just obtained n.ty feave to return home, on account of severe E C,' [Here follow two inclosures relating to the means fit de, fence, and the unhealthy nature of the climate of Walche re.ll Nliddlehourg, Veer, Annyyden, Joostland,, *lush kng, and Ramakins.. Weekly Return of Sick and Wounded, belonging to the Bri ti4ti Army, serving under the command of Lient..Ceneral Sir Eyre Coote, K.B. in General and legirnental I.lospi. tals in the island of Walcheren, from loth to 16th Sept. iSO9, both days inclusive. • In General Hospitals - - In Regimental atto - - Embarked this Ter Veer - S Fort Ramakins EYRE COOTE. P. S. .I begdeave to transmits the inclosed copy of intelligence received this day from South Beve land. E. C., . • Daily Statd of the Sick in the Island of Walcheren. Sept. 21, IBo9.—Officers, 2 I 7 7 -Serjeants, 380= Drummers, 136--Rankfind file, 8684. 22d ditto.— Otficcrs, 223—Serjeants, 384—. Drummers, t3O —Rank and file, 8799. • 23d ditto.—Otficers, 218—Serjeants, 3 23 Druanalers, I go—Rank and file,-9046. Tao. \VALsH, Lt.-Col. D.A.G. Flushing, Sept. sz, 13c9. SIR—In justice to the service and to myself . , as commanding this fortress, it is my duty to represent to you that the increasing sickness, prevailing in this garrison renders the safety of the place very doubtful. I beg to,remark, thi►t in the brigade I co►nmand, in the last 24 hours there is an increase of 73 sick : the sick of the brigade now amounts to the grand total of 1364. The 77th ,regiment IQSI a Captain last night, and a Subaltern was buried this morn , ing. I am, &c. HENRY MONTRESOR, Brig.-Gen. P.S. Garrison Report. Serjeants, 87--(rummers, 32—Rank and file, 2279• Major-General Dyott, &c: vourable state - of accommodation and supplies is also such as to call for the utmost exertions to save the lives of the convalescents, and to make room for that sucussion of recent and acute cases, which, we are sorry to say, continue daily to press for admit- . tance into the various hospitals at the different sta tions in this island. With a view to provide the adequate means for this important piece of service, we beg leave to state, that the transports have been fou.i.d highly - incommodious, dangerous, and inade gnatey we take the liberty . to suggest, that the only safe;speedy, and effetlual means of perform mg this .ser'vice, would be to send from England six or seven ships of the line, with no greater complement of ,men than would "be sufficient to navigate them, the guns of the lower deck being taken out, with a sufficiency of hammocks for 500 men, The num . bumf men now in this island in a state to be thus conveyed we compute to be from 5 to 6000, and they are daily accumulating. Amongst other -rea sons for adopting this mode of conveyance, we beg w specify, that the number of Medical Officers here is, not greater than is required at the hospitals, and that the Surgeons and Ass scant Surgeons ofahe Navy, not being liable to sea --sickness, which fre quently di,ables . entirely the Medical Officers of the Army from doing their duty,'would be found pe , culiarly r well qualified for taking care of these men on their passage. ft is indeed absoltteiy impossible for the land-service to furntsli a medical attendant for each vessel according to the present mode of con veyance. We have, &c. (Signed) GILBEJIT BLANE, Mt. I)4sician-General. lames M'Gregor, M. D Inspettor of the Army Hospitals. Copy of a Dispatch EOM Lieut.-General Sir EYRE Coors , to Viscount CASTLIERSAGH, &led Micidieburgh, 6th October, iSo9 —(Extract.) MY LORD--. 4 am to report, for the information of your Lordship, that the situation of the sick con tinues much the same as when I had last the honour to address your Lordship on that subjea. The inclosed daily. state will give the best information of their numbers, which, I regret to say; still increase. The 23d regiment has been embarked, and • has sailed for England. It was so completely hors de combat, that it was conveyed from hence to Flush ing in .waggons. - * * , * Your Lordship will pardon my anxiety to be in formed of the intention of his "Majesty's Govern ment as to the future fate of Walcheren, , as that 'knowledge will very essentially stied the measures .which I shall then deem it necessary to pursue. If it is to be kept, an objet of the very first import ance must be the proper accommodation of the troops during the approaching winter, to all the se verity of which, in their preient unsheltered state, they must unavoidab'y be exposed. * * * Much distress and consequent sickness arise from, the want of cooking places and cleaning houses .at the several large buildings occupied by the troops as temporary •barracks : so' long as the warm and dry weather continued, the soldiers could manage to cook in the open air ; but that can no longer be the case when the .rainy and frosty season sets in. An other great-privation under which the troops labour, is the want of their heavy baggage and warm cloth ing left in England, agreeably to order, when they . came on the service. If we are to remain here, no time should lost in - forwarding those essential ar ticles, &c. &T. I have, Ere. • (Signed) EYRE COOTE. Viscount Castlereagh, &c.- Daily State of the Sick in the Island of Waicheren. Officers, sg--SerjeantS, 334—Drummers, 156-- Rank and File, 8855: (Signed) T.AVALsH, Lieut.-Col. D. A. G • Dispatch from Lieut.-Gen. Sir ERE ,C 0 0 T to Viscount MAILS. ARA IV FD--.2 Dublin, 2 Waterford. Dt.; E Gottenb urgh 3 Waterford. THE SU N. SOLEU Q'UIS DICIAZ PALSUM AUDLAT ? CA .$T LER E A,C H, &tett Middleburgh, 29th Sept. (Soy. LOND 0 , • M Y LOY..D —The inclosed letter from the Inspec-• for of Hospitals, on the expediency of issuing port wine in iteu of bpi Tits to the convalescents,- in the Proportion of one pint per day to each man, I have the honour to transmit for your Lordship's consider awn. Of the beneficial etfedssof such a measure, I have not the least doubt, but we have scarcely a' sufficiency of port wine for the sick, for, the pre sent ; and the quantity that would be required to serve it out to upwrds of 5,000 convalescents, makes it necessary that supplies' of that article should be sent from ,Englavel; if it shoulctbe thoUght advisable to adopt the recommendation of Mr. In speetor Burrows. I take this opportunity of report ing to your Lordship, that only 3001bs. of powder of bark now remain in store, a quantity not more than sufficient to answer the . consumption of four or five days. I have honour to be, &c. (Signed) EYRE CooTE. Viscount Castlereagh, &c. &c. FR . IDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1810. Our Cowes correspondent mentions a report, that an .English Frigate had been sunk in an engagement with two French Friga s tes, and that the Captain and fifty men had beep killed. . We.. have, however, strong reason to believe that the report is unfound ed, as' tio such account has 'reached the Admiralty. Yesterday it was reported, upon the authority of a Gentleman just arrived from Hollard, that the populace of Amsterdam had risen in a body; attacked the Guards, forced their way into the Palace, at-JO finally drove the Guards out of the city. The cause of this inSurreerion was a report that the Proclama tion for 'annexing Holland to France had been re ceived. The commotion, however, subsided as soon as it was ascertained that no such Proclamation had been received. The Gentleman says 'that it was very generally believed in Amsterdam, that Louis had succeeded in .inducing BUONAPAWtE to consent to the following arrangement, instead of persisting in his intention of anntxing Holland to France, viz. that ,Breda, Bergen-op-Zoom, and, other frontier towns in Dutch Flanders, should be given up to the French, and that the Dutch should receive a com pensation in the Dutchies of Berg and Cleves. Last night some more Patters relative to the Ex pedition to Walcheren were laid before the House of 'Commons. We have extra led the most inter esting of them, but during the progress - of the in vestigation, we shall abstain front offering any com-, ment upon them. 769 - 6,375 334 75 Total 7,553 E. BURROWS, Depufy-lnspeclor of Himpitals Middleburgh, Ist October, 1809. SlR—in the present distressed state of the medi cal service in this island, the 'most important mea sure for the . relief of ,the sick consists iii finding the ready means of transportation to England for as many as can bear being conveyed with safety. The insalubrious state of the air is such, that hardly any have recovered sufficiently to return to effeetive duty ; and great numbers who had attained to a state of convalescence have relapsed. The unfa- Mr. Yoaxs last night gave notice that he should this day move the standing order for the exclusion - • rqu re. I f pN s VON s Prjrited by RI CHtIRD HARRIS, of No. 4. Matt*t.court, Bow-street ; and Published by WP. TI A R P4l R SCR 'PI'S, SootKPoltqn stree t CroPvenor, At qic Scraptk; where Advertisements, Ovjers. tor the i'ap6r, i.or the Editor, fewt . -paiq),tylAbe Of4Tcsycl, .• of strangers, when the Inquiry into the I.Valcheroa Expedition commenced. Mr. Yor,KE's object ill making this motion is, not to prevent the public: from being acquainted with "the facts relative to tl;t3 Expedition, but, to take care that the information communicated, to the public, upon a question of so much itnpbrtance shall be correct. If the stranger; are excluded from 'the gallery, the Newspaper ac counts of the proceedings must of course, be tak eo from the Minutes of the House. We lament that our limits do not permit as to d o justice to the Spegch delivered last night by Lord CASTLRREAGH. Since the days of Mr. PITT, a more , extraordinary effort of genius and ability has not been witnessed in the House of Commons ; and if any thing had been wanting to prove the effect produced on the whole House by his Lordship's SpeeCh, would have been sufficiently made apparent by the evident embarrassment and painful difficulty under which Mr. WHITBREAD was to answer him. 'Muck as we disapprove of Mr. WHITBREAD'S general po litics, we, have always • done justice to -the Ability - with which he has • supported what we have felt to be his wretched cause;, but last night We saw him overpowered and preised down by the bril liant eloquence, arid luminou, exposition of 'Lord CASTLEREAGH. While Mr. WHITBREAD could not obtain, even from his own friends, the faintest cheer, it was joyful to us, as Englishmen, 'to listen to the loudly repeated , acclamations which accompanied . every part of Lord C2ASTLEREA (He's speech, and whioll , came the more home to our own hearts, as we maY • venture to say plat, party opposition alone excepted , there was not an individual in the whole House' to whoie mind his Lordship's statement s of fa&s did not carry the most satisfadciry and the most .entire. conViotion. Mr. CANNING also spoke eloquently on the sans side-as Lord CASTLEREAGH ; and here we cannot but express our sorrow and surprise that there ever, "itt any quarter, should , have existed an idea of wisb' ing,,on the ground of inability, to remove such X Minister as Lord CASTLEREAGH. The Jai:position did not dare to come to a divisioo against the motion - of Thanks to Lord WELLINGTOS' • . Esaix ELEcTiati.—State of the,Poll :-- john Ascher Houblon, Esq.—First day - • 663 Second day 503 1165 Montagu Burgoyne, Esq.—First day - 1 9 , Second day - 267. Majority in favour of Mr. Haublon 89 , / Notwithstanding the great Majority in favour' of Mr. HOUBLON; which is likely to increase ever! day, it is said that Mr. CLIFFORD, Counsel for Mr. BURGOYNE, declares tint the latter shall keep the Poll open as long as a Freeholder will come for ward, during the time allowed by at of Parlia ment. Yesterday some letters were received from Jamaica , by the Aide frigafe, Captain LORING. The account s are not ofa.late date ; • but we understand, that large orders for our merchants, and a considerable tiuntiti of bullion, have been received by this opportunity. We are happy to find that, on the motion of the CHANCELLAR of the EXCHEQUER, a Committee h 35 been appoint'-d to consider of the best mode of C%' pediting private business in the House of Commons' One of the great inconveniences appeared to us V' arise from the very limited' number of Clerks, bal l for attending the 'Committee business, and for en' grossing Bills. We believe 'that for a considerabl e time past it has been found necessary to setw out , the greatest part of the _engrossing to ,b 0 done by Writing - Stationers, by which, of coarse/ 'the experiee of the suitors has been increased' • A Meeting of English Roman Catholics too" place yesterday, at the St. Alban's Tavern, Lor , STOURTON in the Chair. Seven Resolutions we', unanimously adopted. in substance importing, th 3 ` the: Roman Catholics of..Lo g hid are subject t a penal and disabling statutes; that at this crisi, WO" itimlty among all classes - of his Majesty's sabje6o ll most essential, for the preservation of the Empire,' and that nothing: can -proclisce that unanimity b o ` an equal participation of rights, &c. ; that a Pet ty lion for the repeal of these statutes be presented t ° Parliament; that Earl GREY be requested to pre' sent it to the House of Lords, and Mr. Wirioto ° to the House of ,Commons ; that the. English W man Cathialies, in this Petition, are actuated more by a sense. of the hardships and disabilit io under which they labour, than by a desire to secure/ on the most \solid .foundatiun, the peace and I)ar mony of the British Empire ; that the Thanks o the Body'be given to the Secretary, EDWARD JO' HINGHAM, Esq. -for his zeal and ability in manoV ing the cause ; and to Lord STOtJRTON, for bra conduct in the Chair. CORN EXCHANGE, FEB. 2.-The supply of Wheat to-day is considerable, 'and eventing - tine sample" sales are quoted at somewhat lass price pritl Darimic 1085.. to 1105.. per quarter; in Barley an Malt little variation ; White Peas likewise;. Grey and the two•sorts of Beans at the lase 'reduction il l price; of Oats the supplies are considerable; . 01 " , this trade alio at the late reduction ; Flour at one last quotation. PRO AND CON.---The ADVANTAGES Of the presen t Lottery may he thus fairly stated—ist, There are 05 many prizes as numbers; 2J, More capitals thol l were ever known ; 3d, All prulonged,anxiety oluded, by ti.e "prompt decision of one day's draw ing ; 4th; No temptation fur renewing the The DISADVANTAGE is, that there are only 20,0 00 Tickets, and that therefore numbers be pre cluded from making purchases As this evil causl °l be removed, CARTER, No. 8, Charing-Cross, ai r pounces to his Friends, that the drawing approaCl 3 and that the'rickets will soon be exhausted., i r tllllllEl NEW Ti i 17.1 N MOI bc,perto on] EL After Which Sit Timo Su h ural fair The. 1 Duxes 7s. 23 . 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